Cmon man!!! We've got astronauts on the ISS 24x7 folks and quite a few other programs that NASA is working on!
We man the ISS 24/7 the same way "Prince" Roy Bates keeps someone on Sealand 24/7: if it was abandoned, it would go derelict in a very short time, and more importantly, it would become no-one's territory. As long as there's someone there, the illusion that it's a "territory" with "inhabitants" is maintained, as well as the illusion that the US still has a space program, which you fell for.
I know the space shuttle was flawed, expensive, probably too dangerous, etc etc. But the lesson here is that it will be replaced by... not much.
The shuttle is the most visible sign of humanity in regression: mankind is slowing down - literally, it is more or less abandoning manned space exploration, science is giving way to obscurantism, governments are slowly tightening their grip on their populations,...
I remember when I was a kid in the 70s, I used to think I might go into space myself, with any luck, before I'm old. I used to think people would be more and more educated, and we were seeing the last vestiges of religiosity clinging on. Technology and education would be victorious, and mankind was on its way to the stars. Bright days ahead I thought...
The exact opposite is happening today. I think it's the sign of the cost of energy: mankind is regressing as cheap energy is disappearing. The shuttle is just one of the things mankind is giving up on.
This has been seen before, but I suddenly realized how that can help determine the geysers' locations, and I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in the general method.
Hmm, at first, this looks like you're just a Slashdot whore. But I may be wrong, you may be on to something. So I follow the link, read your masterpiece, thinking "this is bloody obvious", then TFA arrives grandiosely at this:
In reality itâ(TM)s tougher than this, but in essence itâ(TM)s doable. In fact, Carolyn told me this has been done in Enceladus images before!
So, in essence, you just had a brainfart and wanted to share it with us?
I'd rather all that money provided books and proper teachers.
Hint: proper teachers need proper salaries, otherwise you get the teaching monkeys you find in schools today, save for the occasional inspired teachers who do it because it's their vocation. Money spent in useless laptops = more crap teachers.
Why does everyone always just talk about heterosexuals and gays? What about ladyboys and shemales? They get no mention in western world, and everyone looks weirdly at them, while they are perfectly fine in many south east asian countries. People aren't against gays anymore, they are against shemales.
I know a mission to bring back samples from Mars would be a true engineering challenge, and I know sending people on Mars and back would be fantastically expensive for almost no appreciable scientific return, and I know the cold war is over. Yet...
"The agency's dream of a sample return mission within the next decade". Sheesh. That's what NASA dreams of doing within a friggin' decade now? No wonder nobody in the US is excited by space exploration anymore.
must mean really small slides where you cant really see whats going on with a puke green background and enormous blobs of text between
That's called an "academic paper", and it's designed to be intensely boring to ordinary human beings - to academia to, but they won't admit it - and this particular piece certainly fits the bill.
Google very motto ("don't do evil") has scared me from the get-go, like some sort of ominous sarcastic lie. Now Google has grown big, ubiquitous, and most importantly, discreetly, as most people don't seem to realize just how pervasive Google's presence is in the life of everybody on this planet.
Any company that's big and powerful enough to seriously think about issuing its own currency needs to be broken up in a hurry.
The enemy would be terrified by the noise, but I suspect wouldn't risk much from the gun, as a projectile exiting the barrel (or whatever passes for a barrel in a railgun) at 5000 mph instantly vaporizes when it hits the atmosphere.
My experience (which may have worked only for me mind you) is that employers don't give a toss about how much you know about stuff, but how flexible, adaptable and quick to learn you are.
In the 20-so years I've worked, I've held 4 positions in fields that have absolutely nothing in common. I worked as an employee, I worked self-employed, and I have my small business on the side.
Whenever I meet a potential employer, I am proud to say that I can learn anything quickly and become proficient on my own, and now I have a fat enough resume to prove it. Yes, I have an engineering degree, but the only thing it proves is that I'm patient and dog-headed enough to sit through years of boring classes, and that I'm clever enough to understand how teachers want the exam questions answered (which is not necessarily the correct answer). The rest of what I did in my life was self-taught, and employers seem to appreciate that much more than what I learned at school.
Never underestimates the capacity of politicos to make decisions and pass legislation based upon a knowledge of the subject at hands poorer than that of a 3 year old. Especially high tech subjects...
I don't really have a stake in the US elections as I'm not American
Everybody in the world has a stake in the US election: if a nutjob was to be elected again, the entire world would suffer. It still suffers from the last one...
Not that the average American has any real say in who will take office, being that, as South Park eloquently put it, the choice of candidates will be between a douche or a turd.
The French do the same thing (try to protect their culture/language), but ultimately isn't it up to the PEOPLE of France and Canada to decide what their culture will be?
If you let the people decide what their culture should be without trying to preserve existing things or invent new ones, we'll end up with reality shows passing for art, and Justin Bieberlake running the country.
So essentially, they buy the stuff they sell from China because it's super-cheap, and now they're trying to get people to give them product ideas because designers and engineers are too expensive, to save on the cost of product development.
No way I'm giving the cheap bastards any of my brainpower so they can make even more profit.
(Mind you, that's exactly what Google does too...)
You forget another, more glamorous possibility: I would very much enjoy putting "capable of concentrating long and hard on any problem, able to work on my own at a problem until it's fully and properly solved" in my resume. In this day and age, where most people seem to glorify short attention spans and teamwork (which is usually just a way dividing the individual brainpower required to perform a certain task, and diluting responsibility when things go wrong), this would seem like a worthwhile skill to offer to an employer.
But no, if you don't pretend you like teamwork and you work well with others in your resume, you can be sure it'll be chucked out in the trashcan right off the bat. It's almost automatic, so much so that it's almost impossible to find a resume *without* that line.
Job offers invariably require applicants to "work well with others" and "enjoy team work". I don't like team work, and I work well with others if I have to, but it's not natural to me.
Well guess what: at each and every job interview I've been to, I lied and pretended I enjoyed working with others, when in reality I like being left the fuck alone to do a good job. Same thing on my resume: if you believe what I put in it, you'd think I'm a social monster. All the folks I know who are a bit of an introvert like I am similariy bullshit their way through job interviews.
Everybody knows it, head hunters know it, employers know it, so why do they carry on asking those "skills"?
In case you haven't noticed, NASA is the FORMER leader in space and aeronautics. Space access is now a Russian and European affair, and the Chinese are getting in the game. But the US dropped the ball: NASA is just an administration dedicated to sink money down the drain these days...
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Cmon man!!! We've got astronauts on the ISS 24x7 folks and quite a few other programs that NASA is working on!
We man the ISS 24/7 the same way "Prince" Roy Bates keeps someone on Sealand 24/7: if it was abandoned, it would go derelict in a very short time, and more importantly, it would become no-one's territory. As long as there's someone there, the illusion that it's a "territory" with "inhabitants" is maintained, as well as the illusion that the US still has a space program, which you fell for.
At best, the ISS is in maintenance mode.
I know the space shuttle was flawed, expensive, probably too dangerous, etc etc. But the lesson here is that it will be replaced by... not much.
The shuttle is the most visible sign of humanity in regression: mankind is slowing down - literally, it is more or less abandoning manned space exploration, science is giving way to obscurantism, governments are slowly tightening their grip on their populations, ...
I remember when I was a kid in the 70s, I used to think I might go into space myself, with any luck, before I'm old. I used to think people would be more and more educated, and we were seeing the last vestiges of religiosity clinging on. Technology and education would be victorious, and mankind was on its way to the stars. Bright days ahead I thought...
The exact opposite is happening today. I think it's the sign of the cost of energy: mankind is regressing as cheap energy is disappearing. The shuttle is just one of the things mankind is giving up on.
This has been seen before, but I suddenly realized how that can help determine the geysers' locations, and I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in the general method.
Hmm, at first, this looks like you're just a Slashdot whore. But I may be wrong, you may be on to something. So I follow the link, read your masterpiece, thinking "this is bloody obvious", then TFA arrives grandiosely at this:
In reality itâ(TM)s tougher than this, but in essence itâ(TM)s doable. In fact, Carolyn told me this has been done in Enceladus images before!
So, in essence, you just had a brainfart and wanted to share it with us?
I'd rather all that money provided books and proper teachers.
Hint: proper teachers need proper salaries, otherwise you get the teaching monkeys you find in schools today, save for the occasional inspired teachers who do it because it's their vocation. Money spent in useless laptops = more crap teachers.
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and don't live in a town called Dorking.
Why does everyone always just talk about heterosexuals and gays? What about ladyboys and shemales? They get no mention in western world, and everyone looks weirdly at them, while they are perfectly fine in many south east asian countries. People aren't against gays anymore, they are against shemales.
Shirley is that you?
let's shut down Ford and GM while we're at it
Don't worry, Detroit execs are already busy mismanaging them out of existence themselves anyway.
if it was his cottage that the meteorite had crashed through.
Also, names in l33t sp34k are sooo 90s...
I know a mission to bring back samples from Mars would be a true engineering challenge, and I know sending people on Mars and back would be fantastically expensive for almost no appreciable scientific return, and I know the cold war is over. Yet...
"The agency's dream of a sample return mission within the next decade". Sheesh. That's what NASA dreams of doing within a friggin' decade now? No wonder nobody in the US is excited by space exploration anymore.
must mean really small slides where you cant really see whats going on with a puke green background and enormous blobs of text between
That's called an "academic paper", and it's designed to be intensely boring to ordinary human beings - to academia to, but they won't admit it - and this particular piece certainly fits the bill.
Google very motto ("don't do evil") has scared me from the get-go, like some sort of ominous sarcastic lie. Now Google has grown big, ubiquitous, and most importantly, discreetly, as most people don't seem to realize just how pervasive Google's presence is in the life of everybody on this planet.
Any company that's big and powerful enough to seriously think about issuing its own currency needs to be broken up in a hurry.
The enemy would be terrified by the noise, but I suspect wouldn't risk much from the gun, as a projectile exiting the barrel (or whatever passes for a barrel in a railgun) at 5000 mph instantly vaporizes when it hits the atmosphere.
My experience (which may have worked only for me mind you) is that employers don't give a toss about how much you know about stuff, but how flexible, adaptable and quick to learn you are.
In the 20-so years I've worked, I've held 4 positions in fields that have absolutely nothing in common. I worked as an employee, I worked self-employed, and I have my small business on the side.
Whenever I meet a potential employer, I am proud to say that I can learn anything quickly and become proficient on my own, and now I have a fat enough resume to prove it. Yes, I have an engineering degree, but the only thing it proves is that I'm patient and dog-headed enough to sit through years of boring classes, and that I'm clever enough to understand how teachers want the exam questions answered (which is not necessarily the correct answer). The rest of what I did in my life was self-taught, and employers seem to appreciate that much more than what I learned at school.
Wonder what Brahms would make of the insanity that passes for copyright today.
Dunno about Brahms, but we all know what happened when Bismark found out about Franz Ferdinand's bootleg copies of his hit song "eis eis baby".
Never underestimates the capacity of politicos to make decisions and pass legislation based upon a knowledge of the subject at hands poorer than that of a 3 year old. Especially high tech subjects...
I don't really have a stake in the US elections as I'm not American
Everybody in the world has a stake in the US election: if a nutjob was to be elected again, the entire world would suffer. It still suffers from the last one...
Not that the average American has any real say in who will take office, being that, as South Park eloquently put it, the choice of candidates will be between a douche or a turd.
When on earth has the US actually cared how large the debt gets.
Before the US quit paying it back regularly or keeping it in check, essentially after the New Deal policies were put in place in the 1930s.
What we need is a new cold war, to play who's-got-the-biggest-balls with another superpower and fund a new, bold space program.
No cold war = boring old reality with a national debt to repay.
The French do the same thing (try to protect their culture/language), but ultimately isn't it up to the PEOPLE of France and Canada to decide what their culture will be?
If you let the people decide what their culture should be without trying to preserve existing things or invent new ones, we'll end up with reality shows passing for art, and Justin Bieberlake running the country.
So essentially, they buy the stuff they sell from China because it's super-cheap, and now they're trying to get people to give them product ideas because designers and engineers are too expensive, to save on the cost of product development.
No way I'm giving the cheap bastards any of my brainpower so they can make even more profit.
(Mind you, that's exactly what Google does too...)
Aren't spy satellites considered weapons too?
They are if you cunningly deorbit them so they fall on somebody's head
You forget another, more glamorous possibility: I would very much enjoy putting "capable of concentrating long and hard on any problem, able to work on my own at a problem until it's fully and properly solved" in my resume. In this day and age, where most people seem to glorify short attention spans and teamwork (which is usually just a way dividing the individual brainpower required to perform a certain task, and diluting responsibility when things go wrong), this would seem like a worthwhile skill to offer to an employer.
But no, if you don't pretend you like teamwork and you work well with others in your resume, you can be sure it'll be chucked out in the trashcan right off the bat. It's almost automatic, so much so that it's almost impossible to find a resume *without* that line.
Job offers invariably require applicants to "work well with others" and "enjoy team work". I don't like team work, and I work well with others if I have to, but it's not natural to me.
Well guess what: at each and every job interview I've been to, I lied and pretended I enjoyed working with others, when in reality I like being left the fuck alone to do a good job. Same thing on my resume: if you believe what I put in it, you'd think I'm a social monster. All the folks I know who are a bit of an introvert like I am similariy bullshit their way through job interviews.
Everybody knows it, head hunters know it, employers know it, so why do they carry on asking those "skills"?
NASA, the world's leader in space and aeronautics
Say what?
In case you haven't noticed, NASA is the FORMER leader in space and aeronautics. Space access is now a Russian and European affair, and the Chinese are getting in the game. But the US dropped the ball: NASA is just an administration dedicated to sink money down the drain these days...
Each movie that camera makes is dubbed with the sound of Steve Austin running for dramatic effect.